Roo Borson

Ruth Elizabeth Borson, who writes under the name Roo Borson (born 20 January 1952 in Berkeley, California) is a Canadian poet who lives in Toronto. She is a graduate of the University of British Columbia.

Works

*"Landfall" (1977), ISBN 0-920110-32-0
*"Rain" (1980), ISBN 0-920806-19-8
*"In the Smoky Light of the Fields" (1980), ISBN 0-88823-024-9
*"A Sad Device" (1981), ISBN 0-86495-011-X
*"The Whole Night, Coming Home" (1984), ISBN 0-7710-1579-8 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
*"The Transparence of November / Snow" (1985), ISBN 0-919627-30-7 (with Kim Maltman)
*"Intent, or, The Weight of the World" (1989), ISBN 0-7710-1588-7
*"Night Walk" (1994), ISBN 0-19-541082-3 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
*"Water Memory" (1996), ISBN 0-7710-1589-5
*"Introduction to the Introduction to Wang Wei" (2000), ISBN 1-894078-09-8 (by Pain Not Bread)
*"Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida" (2004), ISBN 0-7710-1591-7 (winner of the 2004 Governor General's Award, the 2005 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize and the 2005 Pat Lowther Award)
*"Personal History" (2008) ISBN 1-8971-4121-1

External links

* [http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/shortlist_2005.php?t=1 Griffin Poetry Prize biography, including audio and video clips]
* [http://www.cbc.ca/wordsatlarge/features/feature.php?storyId=367 "Summer Grass" from "Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida", online at CBC Words at Large]
* [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0010925 Roo Borson's] entry in [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=HomePage&Params=A1 The Canadian Encyclopedia]